Abbas El Daly
Acting
Biography
An Egyptian actor, who was born in the city of Tanta in 1911. He memorized the Holy Qur’an and entered the primary and preparatory school. Then he moved to Cairo and lived in Shubra neighborhood. He obtained his secondary certificate in 1928. He worked on the theater, before he had the opportunity to work in cinema in 1939 by participating in the movie Lend Me 3 Pounds. He is best known for acting in: Bitter Grapes, Thief and Dogs, and Women Don't Know How To Lie. He passed away in 1980.
Born: March 6, 1911
Place of Birth: Tanta, Egypt
Known For
Lend Me Three Pounds
Osman Abdel Basit is a Nubian man working in a school who tries to get three pounds to pay his mortgage, which is due , otherwise he will lose his house. He moves from one job to another, and from one chance to the next to get the three pounds.
The Thug
Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid and after a while he separates and marries Hossnyia. Haridy forms an alliance against Abu Zaid, but he soon becomes more powerful and his condition turns to worse.
A Day of My Life
An unexpected love affair quickly blossoms between aspiring down-on-his-luck reporter Salah (Abdel Halim Hafez) and the subject of his first newspaper scoop, a pretty young heiress (Zubaida Tharwat)who's soon to be forced into an arranged marriage.
The Nightingale's Prayer
This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.
Cairo Station
Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.
Struggle on the Nile
Naïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up the Nile to Cairo. Once there, they will sell their boat, the "Bride of the Nile," in order to buy a barge that will make their village elders more competitive in business and trade. But a ruthless business rival is determined to see that the men never reach Cairo. Matters become even more complicated when Nargis, a scheming carnival dancer, is discovered hiding out in the cargo hold of the "Bride of the Nile."
The Leech
A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinated by his youth and vitality and lures him into practicing vice with her. As a result, he stumbles in his studies and health. At this time, a girl whom she and her father knew from a young age helps him to get rid of all the corruption in which he lives, and her father advises him to stay away from intercessions, but the intercessions plots against him in an attempt to stay with her.
They Made Me a Criminal
Sultan thought that his father's death will soften his uncle's heart and he will take good care of him. Contrary to Sultan's expectations, the uncle sent him to an orphanage. When he leaves the orphanage, Sultan fails to find an honest job, and he vows revenge.
El Murra El Maghoula
Ahmed likes Fatima, and feelings of love grow between the two, imagining that they are from noble families. A love story develops, and Ahmed asks Fatima to marry him. After the wedding, they have a son named Samir. One day, Fatima goes to visit Suad at her home, but the police raid the place because it is suspicious. Fatima is arrested, and her life is turned upside down.
Jamila, the Algerian
Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her university to arrest her classmate Amina who commits suicide by ingesting poison. Shortly after the prominent Algerian guerrilla leader Youssef takes refuge with her, she realizes that her uncle Mustafa is part of this network of anti-colonial rebel fighters. Her uncle linked her to the National Liberation Front (FLN). A series of events illustrate Jamila's participation in resistance operations against the occupier before she was finally captured and tortured. Finally, despite the efforts of her French lawyer, Jamila is sentenced to death...
Filmography
as صديق شوكت
as the murdered groom
as عامل المطبعة
as المأذون
as Hajj Zain's friend
as ريفي
as الحلاق
as زبون المحامي
as مع الثائرين
as بائع البسبوسه
as ابو اسماعيل
as عبد ربه السجان
as عم علي بواب المدرسة
as زبون القهوه
as Hassan the janitor
as عفيفى
as الشيخ طلعت أبو العينين
as Kamel - butler
as الشيخ عبدالواحد
as الدخاخنى
as الحاج خليل الطباخ
as الطبيب
as من أهل القرية
as جدو
as عباس الشيال
as Hussein - حسين
as مدير مدرسة محو الأمية
as عم ابراهيم - البقال
as حارس
as رواد الملهى الليلي
as صاحب معمل لبن
as محمد بسه والد الهام
as مذيع المسرح
as Hotel Concierge
as محسب أفندى - كاتب الجزار
as صاحب مسرح
as أحد رجال القرية
as عباس - البواب
as السفرجي في منزل كوثر هانم
as فلاح
as رجل من الحاره
as زبون الدخاخنى
as مأمور البوليس
as الحاجب
as مدرس الحساب